By Britt Carlsen / IYB
Photography: © ridehesten.com
Danish Warmblood and Stutteri Ask hosted this year’s World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) International Young Breeders (IYB) World Championships from July 4-6, welcoming 142 competitors aged 16-26 from 20 member studbooks.
Young breeder travelled from Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany (10 studbooks), Great Britain, Ireland, Latvia, Sweden, and the Netherlands, to join their hosts at Martofte in Denmark. Stutteri Ask, the largest stallion station for Danish Warmblood jumping horses, provided a fabulous location for the event, within sight of the Dalby Bay and the Kattegat Ocean, offering a truly remarkable view.
Three days of Championship competition concluded with a festive prize-giving ceremony on Saturday, July 6 celebrating the young breeders in a spectacular way. Pferdezuchtverband Sachsen-Thüringen e.V. emerged victorious as studbook champions, with Danish Warmblood as reserve studbook champions, and Swedish Warmblood in the bronze position.
Silver – Pferdezuchtverband Sachsen-Thüringen e.V.
Bronze – Pferdezuchtverband Brandenburg-Anhalt e.V.
How the championships are conducted
The championships require concentration, stamina, consistency, and of course exemplary knowledge and skill in the areas of theory assessment, conformation and athleticism, trait appraisal, and not least of all the ability to handle a strange horse and show it effectively to the judges on a triangle format akin to a dressage test in hand. The showmanship skills, control, and ability to encourage the best performance from the horses in the situation are under scrutiny during the in-hand phase.
The aim of competitors during the trait assessment phases is to match the judges’ scores for the animals as closely as possible. Teams within the age groups of junior (16-20 years of age) and senior (21-26 years of age) must also turnout and present a horse for inspection by the judges, not an official part of the overall championship scores, but in which great pride is taken nevertheless.
An international panel of judges
The international judges panel comprised Hannah Edler (Pferdezuchtverband Brandenburg-Anhalt e.V), Tiernan Gill (Irish Sport Horse Studbook); Christina Olsson (Swedish Warmblood Association), and Matthias Werner (Trakehner Verband e.V.), supported by national Danish Warmblood Studbook judges Jane Bech Jensen, Vicky Nortvig, Johnny Hansen, and Christian Springborg all of whom gave a marathon performance adjudicating the various disciplines while imparting their encouragement and wisdom to those participating... To read the complete article you need to be a subscriber
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